A person who is incarcerated or imprisoned; an inmate of a prison.
From Latin carcer (prison) plus the suffix -ist, creating an agent noun for someone associated with or living in a prison.
This is an old-fashioned or literary term for a prisoner—modern writers and scholars might use it for dramatic effect, but 'inmate' is what prisons officially call them!
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